2014, Number 3
Educative intervention in order to prevent pregnancy in the adolescence. FMO# 3. Veguitas. December, 2010-2011
Torres RL, Cedeño NA, Lastres PEC, Guerra PSR, Santiesteban RY
Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 1-13
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: nowadays the teenagers are affected by a disproportionate percentage of non-planned pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases (including AIDS) and other severe problems of the reproductive health.Objective: to evaluate the efficiency of an Educational Intervention Program to avoid pregnancies in the adolescence. MFO#3. Veguitas. December 2010-2011.
Method: it was performed an intervention program to the teenagers with pregnancy risk, the sample was made by 50 patients, after the application of an initial questionnaire that explored the existence of validated risk factors. They were taught 10 educational activities with duration of 45 minutes per week. It was also applied a program to increase the knowledge about the subject and determine its influence on some modifiable factors.
Results: the group of age between 14-16 years prevailed. Initially the level of unsuitable knowledge was about 72 %, at the end of the study it increased, obtaining 96%, what showed the efficiency of the program. The lack of knowledge on the safer contraceptive methods was about 15% at the beginning of the program and it increased in 35% at the end of it.
Conclusions: the group of age between 14-16 years with an amount of 26 participants prevailed. In the teenagers studied prevailed like a risk group the one that was not preconcepcionally controlled. After the application of the educational strategy of intervention, most of the teenagers expressed that they had increased their knowledge.
REFERENCES
11- Mariño Membribes E.R., Ávalos González M.M., Baro Jiménez V.G. Comportamiento del embarazo en la adolescencia en el policlínico Aleida Fernández Chardiet. Rev. Cub Med Gen Integ. [En Línea]. 2011 [Consultado 14 de abril 2013]; 36(4). Disponible en: http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0864-21252011000400003&lng=es.